The Sunken 17th-Century Dutch Treasure Ships Found In The Great Barrier Reef | Absolute History

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  • @rolandtomkellam9306
    @rolandtomkellam9306 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Todd, a few years ago I was detecting on the home farm where my daddy was born and I grew up. My dad had a single shot 22 rifle when he was a teenager. He would tell me stories of throwing up ink bottles and pennies and hitting them with the 22. My dad is still living and is 96. Three years ago I was detecting in the field behind the main house and dug up a penny. Not any kind of penny, but a 1940 wheat penny that had been bent by a 22-shot. When I took it to him and told the story of it, he was kind of silent, then said "I guess this was one of mine. "

    • @indigoastrealaluna2808
      @indigoastrealaluna2808 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Awesome find and sweet story. I own a home and the property it’s on that was built in 1923 or so. It was the first doctors home so it served as a place where patients must have come in addition to house calls. It’s rural Florida still:) the house is a treasure, the guest house (what I call it..could have been used for patients I have no clue) I put farm gates in where wood gates would originally have been- the place is surrounded by an amazing hand made river rock stacked fence or enclosure except for a front entrance and 2 side entrances..the rest is secured by trees and plants then the river..so just post digging became an adventure like the whole place is haha found glass bottles that were from early 1900’s to the 20’s and 30’s. Medicine bottles. I have some coins that I cherish like buffalo nickels and wheat pennies. Funny the coins I have gotten from getting change! I’ve got old silver dollars, other old coins that have defects so they are rare but I keep them. My husband has a 2 dollar bill collection:) if my health wasn’t in bad shape I’d so geek out with a metal detector. Your dad. As a darn good shot..we have a 22 from early 1900’s..I had my husband shoot it bc I didn’t know if it was safe ha. It shoots but not like the modern counterparts we have that we mount with scopes that could make it possible to hit a penny..with practice. That is talent! God Bless y’all!!

    • @peacebrain4471
      @peacebrain4471 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Detecting is awesome fun! Respect bros!

    • @jeremiahbarr8335
      @jeremiahbarr8335 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s cool

  • @laurielaurie8280
    @laurielaurie8280 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It really is sad how men kill each other for treasure, money, love, etc. Finding those skeletons on that island is a sad reality of it. Some things in human nature never change.

  • @justbuns6404
    @justbuns6404 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It looks like videos taken from some guys TH-cam channel and just cut/stitched together.
    We're at some wreck! We're at a university. Now we're in an unrelated island. Now to a different wreck.
    What's going on?

    • @robertscheinost179
      @robertscheinost179 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What is going on is a description of the Great Barrier Reef over time and the artifacts collected. No rocket science here! Did you read the introduction of the video?

  • @DenUitvreter
    @DenUitvreter ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Willem van Oranje started the 80-years war, the 30 years war was for the French and Germans mainly about who's religion was the best, the protestants or the catholics. The 80-years war started because the Dutch wanted relgious tolerance and their king, Philip II of Spain wanted to torture and burn all protestants. So after over a decade into the rebellion the Dutch declared the king a tyrant who denied them their inalienable rights instead of serving the people like he had to, and therefore independence. The revolt became a war between the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Empire for independence.
    The 80-years war ended together with the 30-years war at the peace of Westphalia, but that was kind of a formality for the Dutch Republic because they where well established as an independent nation by then, they had become the supreme economic power, ended the supremacy of the Spanish Empire and had been fighting the Spanish and Portuguese mostly overseas.

  • @Pou1gie1
    @Pou1gie1 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I always wonder why there aren't underwater metal detectors to use in these situations? Wouldn't it make it easier to find gold, silver , metal plates, etc.?

    • @nathanhatch9889
      @nathanhatch9889 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      They do have underwater metal detectors available, for some reason these guys just decided not to bring one I guess. You can get a decent fully waterproof one for like $900. Seems kind of a waste of time not to take one!

    • @johnzaccagnini8317
      @johnzaccagnini8317 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Honestly there are probably a ton of restrictions and whatnot regarding using certain tools in situations like this and probably a ton of red tape to get the required permits for things like this. There is only certain things your allowed to do regarding shipwrecks and different laws in different parts of the world. ALOT of the time your not even allowed to brush off historic relics because of reefs and wildlife concerns...it's crazy

    • @lennarthagen3638
      @lennarthagen3638 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its ok im tabled

  • @SnowTiger45
    @SnowTiger45 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    To suggest that because the bullets came from a later era the wreck he's looking for cannot be there is a bit misleading. There are many locations where multiple wrecks have landed on top of each other and strewn over the same area. One might have to look through the strata and coral to find older ship wrecks.

  • @SAOS451316
    @SAOS451316 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Damned treasure hunters ruining perfectly good archaeological sites is what these people are. They didn't document anything properly if at all and took things!

    • @CaptainAMAZINGGG
      @CaptainAMAZINGGG ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You don't know they didn't

    • @theharper1
      @theharper1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And moved lots of things from their original context. 😒

  • @mikkelnpetersen
    @mikkelnpetersen ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I think one of the main challenges with salvaging shipwrecks might be the question of "salvage rights", you find something and there's BOUND to be some nation that's saying "that's a historical artifact that WE have the right to (because we say so), hand it over, for free of course", while someone else might try to say "it was found in OUR national waters, so we have the right to it".
    Whenever you find something, beware of those who want to take it from you without working for it, i'm not saying "I found it, it's MINE", but I would not hand anything over to anyone who tries to ORDER me to, if they would have more of a "that's an artifact of national history importance to us, we're willing to compensate you for its return" attitude then I might be open for negotiations.
    And I belive there are MANY historical items "lost" because of such rules and attitudes, fx. in some nations if you have a building project and finds historical artifacts, the goverment can force you to start an archeological digs site AT YOUR EXPENSE, there have been cases where they demolished houses and found things like pipes laid through ancient buildings and human remains because it would've been too expensive to report it, so they just kept their mouths shut and build over and through it.

    • @ronaldderooij1774
      @ronaldderooij1774 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As far as shipwrecks are concerned, The Netherlands is the only country in the world that maintains the position "wether a ship is above or under water, it remains ours". The rest of the world says "it is our waters, the ship is not being used as intended, so it is ours". Of course the Netherlands can say whatever it wants, it cannot enforce it in other's territorial waters, so it is a dead letter.

  • @janina8559
    @janina8559 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    He had me interested until he consulted a psychic. Maybe it was Ancient Aliens 🤷🏼‍♀️.

  • @majestic1222
    @majestic1222 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Way Cool 👍

  • @lizabethgussman331
    @lizabethgussman331 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    There was a Chinese ship that go stuck in the Great Barrier Reef. It was abandoned.

    • @bitcoinkang
      @bitcoinkang ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Sounds like there was Sum Ting Wong.

    • @esimon343
      @esimon343 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bitcoinkang nice!

  • @Emma-ey8cu
    @Emma-ey8cu ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I read recently a team of American treasure hunters found a French ship loaded with treasures. The French fought to take the treasures for 7 yrs and eventually won the treasure from the American hunters. My only thought was don't the French have in their possession many treasures that they stold and refuse to give back?

  • @andymarkey88
    @andymarkey88 ปีที่แล้ว

    Divers helmet...old ?, the copper underneath didn't look too tarnished after all that time. Also never mentioned again or shown.... thats abit odd.

  • @randallsmerna384
    @randallsmerna384 ปีที่แล้ว

    Divers helmet! F****** awesome find! So envious!

  • @laurielaurie8280
    @laurielaurie8280 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great finds. I love the pipe you found at the end. Cool.

  • @James-cs2wi
    @James-cs2wi 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Insurance must have been very expensive in the 17th century I just paid £2,000 to ensure RS Twingo what a rip-off😊

  • @mtkoslowski
    @mtkoslowski ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Listen folks, if 18th century dutch ships ran aground on the great barrier reef, then the only treasure they were likely to contain, would have been peppercorns and other sundry spices. Lol.

    • @stevebohla6473
      @stevebohla6473 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Not true. They also acted as a way to deliver payment to both trading partners, company personal, and military personal in whatever colonies they were operating in around the world..

    • @DenUitvreter
      @DenUitvreter ปีที่แล้ว

      No, they controlled a lot of the spice trade to be able to trade in anything. But if they ended up on the barrier reef they were probably exploring looking for new trades or were lost.

    • @about2mount
      @about2mount ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Every ship that left any port anywhere had several lists for everything they carried by name, by each, by weight and by worth that they carried. That is precisely why everyone is searching for the famed Madigascar.

    • @mtkoslowski
      @mtkoslowski ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@about2mount
      Of course you are quite correct. Please forgive my tongue-in-cheek peppercorn remark. The Dutch East India Company were fastidious in their record keeping.

    • @spateri728
      @spateri728 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You do realise they're not diving the Great Barrier Reef? They're on the top of Australia between Qld and WA. Well those are the reefs I know that they went to.

  • @Pou1gie1
    @Pou1gie1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @42:12 He went to a psychic to determine what these supposed symbols mean???

  • @randallsmerna384
    @randallsmerna384 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Completely absurd that the things that are found must stay down there so that they can rot to nothingness and be lost to time.

    • @helmuthj.zotter7272
      @helmuthj.zotter7272 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Australian government and nanny state at its best.

    • @rodfast8196
      @rodfast8196 ปีที่แล้ว

      Finders keepers. No way I d put it back . 😂

  • @luissantiago9564
    @luissantiago9564 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He said he helped recover them, and he also hid some.

  • @paultheretrogamer
    @paultheretrogamer ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video that guys a mad man I would never drink that stuff made me shudder

  • @lp88088
    @lp88088 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sorry, folks. I stopped watching when he damn near stubbed his toe on a 130 yr old deep sea diver's helmet.

  • @jwfinley7808
    @jwfinley7808 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why doesnt that bottle have coral growing on it??

  • @jwfinley7808
    @jwfinley7808 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is it RUM ??

  • @sebastianmelmoth9100
    @sebastianmelmoth9100 ปีที่แล้ว

    cool stories --

  • @SaniAbdulkadir-zw1ki
    @SaniAbdulkadir-zw1ki 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good

  • @skybluskyblueify
    @skybluskyblueify ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Underwater metal detectors alert strongly on gold. I think it would have helped to find some under the sand and coral even many inches down.

  • @DrishSuri
    @DrishSuri 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How Many Ships Have Sank?

  • @ianpellant9312
    @ianpellant9312 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is badly labelled. There was no gold or silver treasure in Australia in the 17th Century.
    The east coast of Australia and the Great Barrier reef were not mapped until Capt Cook surveyed in 1770.
    Dutch traders are believed to have landed on the West / Northern coast in the 1600' (17th Century).
    The Aboriginals had never developed gold smelting.
    Gold was discovered by the whites around 1850 in Victoria, starting a gold rush that made its way up the eastern Great Divide ranges and founded the port of Cooktown in 1873, followed by Port Douglas and Cairns as gold became important and ports were needed. Ships of ths time were mostly coastal steamers.
    17 Century Dutch Teasure Treasure Ships on the Great Barrier Reef... NONSENSE

    • @JamesSmith-qd4oq
      @JamesSmith-qd4oq 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How lucky to find all that treasure 🙄

  • @Bambisgf77
    @Bambisgf77 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why must things over 75 years old be put back to rot? I don’t understand?

  • @vcom2327
    @vcom2327 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    To spend your life hunting sunken treasure....😊

  • @jarrodkober
    @jarrodkober 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    39:47 A Japanese Pirate says ARRR more than any other Pirate

  • @aliciacruz5957
    @aliciacruz5957 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting

  • @cindy7911
    @cindy7911 ปีที่แล้ว

    The spice trade was nothing compared to the opium trade.

  • @StevenLeishman-yw6cf
    @StevenLeishman-yw6cf ปีที่แล้ว

    That's your opinion on the aboriginal paintings. I bet there's a better more truthful one too

  • @davidfisher12865
    @davidfisher12865 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ya know,they make these things called metal detectors.

  • @neddyladdy
    @neddyladdy ปีที่แล้ว

    Dutch ships were wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef were they? Did you listen to the narration ?

  • @sheepdog1102
    @sheepdog1102 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I would keep everything that I found! Finders keepers! The greedy government bureaucrats can kiss my behind!!!😊

  • @johnnyh5969
    @johnnyh5969 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m divorced after 25yrs
    Boxed professionals @39yrs old
    When can I dive with you
    I can swim

    • @riccicrozzie8204
      @riccicrozzie8204 ปีที่แล้ว

      Take a number mate 😂

    • @SuckItNeakins
      @SuckItNeakins ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you okay

    • @johnnyh5969
      @johnnyh5969 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SuckItNeakins I’m probably better then u ever be Ran a 7 minute mile last week.

    • @SuckItNeakins
      @SuckItNeakins ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnnyh5969 So mean, thanks.

  • @garden-Railway
    @garden-Railway 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Music👎

  • @geofflewis8599
    @geofflewis8599 ปีที่แล้ว

    ..what treasure would the Dutch have found in Australia?..

    • @robertscheinost179
      @robertscheinost179 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was a transportation route. Nobody said the Dutch mined the gold in Australia. The Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) was where the gold came from.

  • @jasonhare8540
    @jasonhare8540 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm sorry you lost me at psychic .

  • @lisawiththevizsla1
    @lisawiththevizsla1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Every thing should have been reseached before disturbing it from it's natural place. Every ship has a History to be Chronicled for History's sack.

    • @rmyikzelf5604
      @rmyikzelf5604 ปีที่แล้ว

      Indeed, although these wrecks are probably too disturbed for serious archeology already.

  • @dukejohn2898
    @dukejohn2898 ปีที่แล้ว

    AbsoluteHistory its like netflix? Crap?

    • @resnonverba137
      @resnonverba137 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please how and why to use a question mark, ffs!

  • @LindaCasey
    @LindaCasey ปีที่แล้ว +1

    💖💖

  • @danielmoncaster3216
    @danielmoncaster3216 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sick of the woke revisionist language in history hit videos.

  • @emmagee1990
    @emmagee1990 ปีที่แล้ว

    Am I the only one who felt like that lady was yanking that shark out from it’s hiding place? 😂 Looked like it was being handled so rough the poor thing

    • @helmuthj.zotter7272
      @helmuthj.zotter7272 ปีที่แล้ว

      Over all impression about the "lady", not the brightest candle on the cake.